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> [“I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for example, of such dual abstractions as pleasure and pain, love and hate, friendship and enmity; and more material classifications like work and play: a profession or calling being, according…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/i-used-to-imagine-life-divided-into-separate-compartments-consisting/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

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## More by Anthony Powell

> [I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/i-was-impressed-for-the-ten-thousandth-time-by-the-fact-that/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/like-everything-that-s-any-good-it-has-about-twenty-different-meanings/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/i-have-absolutely-no-histrionic-talent-none-at-all-a-constitutional/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“The crematorium was a blaze of sunshine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/the-crematorium-was-a-blaze-of-sunshine/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/parents-are-sometimes-a-bit-of-a-disappointment-to-their-children/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/her-expression-was-oafish-but-it-was-on-the-whole-this-quality-that/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/enormous-simplifications-were-possibly-necessary-to-carry-a-deeper/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/i-hate-anything-superficial-but-i-will-take-the-book-and-look-at-it/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/it-is-rather-an-occasion-darling-said-moreland-vexed-at-these/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/there-seemed-no-particular-object-in-avoiding-banality-from-the-start/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/dinner-at-the-huntercombes-possessed-only-two-dramatic-features-the/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“Even then I did not recognise the quest for power.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/even-then-i-did-not-recognise-the-quest-for-power/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/some-of-the-best-of-us-are-quite-unambitious/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/one-passes-through-the-world-knowing-few-if-any-of-the-important/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

> [“He stood pondering this flat, forthright declaration of anti-simianism on Miss Weedon’s part. The notion that some people might not like monkeys was evidently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/he-stood-pondering-this-flat-forthright-declaration-of-anti-simianism/)

[Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/)

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